"Twilight" spoof on "Saturday Night Live" (Taylor Swift hosts)
9:58 AM PST, November 8, 2009
I didn't tune in to see Taylor Swift hosting Saturday Night Live last night, but I hear one of the highlights was the Twilight spoof, called Firelight, and starring Swift as "Stella." Watch it below or on YouTube. --David Trailer Park: "Sherlock Holmes" (version 3)
5:07 PM PST, November 7, 2009
This is the third trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes movie, opening on Christmas Day 2009, and starring Robert Downey Jr. as the title sleuth, Jude Law as Dr. Watson, and Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, and directed by Guy Ritchie. I like Downey and McAdams a lot, but the trailer's mix of high-impact action and comedy seems like it could be really good or really, er, not good. For my money, Jeremy Brett is still the best Holmes, though I know Basil Rathbone has his fans and there's an intriguing Peter Cushing version coming out this December. --David
The Best Movies & TV of 2009
4:16 PM PST, November 6, 2009
As we've done for 10 years now, our editorial team has compiled their list of the Best Movies & TV of 2009. Over the next few days we'll be publishing a number of our genre lists in this space, but we'll start with the basics: the top 100 DVDs of 2009 (in other words, DVDs that were released in 2009). Agree? Disagree? Post a comment and let us know. Our first 10 of the 100:
See the rest of the top 100 DVDs, the top 100 Blu-ray discs, and many other lists at http://www.amazon.com/bestmovies2009. Trailer Park: 'Salt,' 'Avatar,' 'Prince of Persia'
12:22 PM PST, November 5, 2009
Here's a look at upcoming movies. Click on link to sign up when they are released on DVD and Blu-ray. (Release dates subject to change). Salt (starring Angelina Jolie, dir. by Philip Noyce)-- Angelina is blonde! Angelina is brunette! Angelina does what she does best: kick ass. Here, a CIA official named Evelyn Salt is accused of being a Russian spy and goes on the run. This teaser doesn't show much, but Jolie took over the role after Tom Cruise(!) vacated the role (yes, Salt was supposed to be a guy), so it's a high-profile project regardless. (July 23rd)
Avatar(starring Sam Worthington, dir. by James Cameron) -- Terminator Salvation's Worthington goes front and center in Cameron's highly anticipated first theatrical feature since Titanic. Worthington is a wheelchair-bound Marine who must befriend the blue-skinned "savages" on a new planet via a created "avatar" so they can mine the rich resources of their planet. The end of the trailer splays all of Cameron's other achievements, reminding you that despite any hesitations you had about his crazy projects in the past, he's always delivered. (Dec. 18)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton; directed by Mike Newell & Alexander Witt)-- Jerry Bruckheimer defied the odds and made a Disneyland ride called Pirates of the Caribbean into a billion-dollar franchise and Johnny Depp into an Oscar nominee. While Prince of Persia is definitely full of the visual FX, it doesn't have the name recognition, and Gyllenhaal, all brawn, dirty and hewn and sporting a British accent, looks like he dressed up as a Spartan from 300 for Halloween. In other words, it'll take more than muscle to prove he works in this role. (May 28)
--Ellen
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Armchair Daily: News from the World of Movies & TV
11:02 PM PST, November 3, 2009
OSCAR HOSTS NAMED: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the Academy Awards next March. Martin has hosted twice; it will be Baldwin's first time. Last year's host, Hugh Jackman, declined to be considered again this year. Coincidentally the two are co-starring in a romantic comedy with Meryl Streep, It's Complicated, opening on Christmas.TV TIDBITS: The Parents Television Council has written a letter to The CW network critizing an upcoming Nov. 9 episode of Gossip Girl that features a threesome. -Adrian Pasdar is leaving Heroes. According to EW.com, he found out he was being let go by reading his character's death scene in the script. SPECIAL GUEST STARS: Robert Wagner will appear on NCIS as the father of Tony (Michael Weatherly); James Franco, who recently filmed a stint on General Hospital, will play himself on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock. --Ellen OSCAR HOSTS NAMED: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the Academy Awards next March. Martin has hosted twice; it will be Baldwin's first time. Last year's host, Hugh Jackman, declined to be considered again this year. Coincidentally the two are co-starring in a romantic comedy with Meryl Streep, It's Complicated, opening on Christmas.TV TIDBITS: The Parents Television Council has written a letter to The CW network critizing an upcoming Nov. 9 episode of Gossip Girl that features a threesome. -Adrian Pasdar is leaving Heroes. According to EW.com, he found out he was being let go by reading his character's death scene in the script. SPECIAL GUEST STARS: Robert Wagner will appear on NCIS as the father of Tony (Michael Weatherly); James Franco, who recently filmed a stint on General Hospital, will play himself on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock. --Ellen Write the Caption: Boomboxes, Trenchcoats, and Peter Gabriel Galore
3:06 PM PST, November 3, 2009
If you looked at the photo below (taken as part of the 20th anniversary of Say Anything, re-creating the iconic John Cusack scene), what caption would you write? --Ellen "Re-Animator": November Spotlight DVD
2:06 PM PST, November 3, 2009
It’s been 15 years since I last watched Re-Animator. Viewing the Anchor Bay DVD Daniel Cain is a bright young med student on the fast track to the top. Although his obsessive techniques with critical patients occasionally get him into trouble, Cain is accomplished enough—both academically and socially—to be admired by his Anchor Bay’s 2-disc DVD features the 86-minute unrated version of the film (rather than the 95-minute R-rated version), and it comes loaded with extras, including a surprisingly extensive retrospective, interviews with cast and crew, deleted and extended scenes, and all sorts of other good stuff. - Ryan Daley, Bloody-Disgusting.com Q&A with "Food, Inc." Producer/Director Robert Kenner, Co-Producer/Food Expert Eric Schlosser, Food Expert Michael Pollan and Producer Elise Pearlstein
10:41 AM PST, November 3, 2009
Learn more about the critically acclaimed film Food, Inc. from producers and contributors to the film in this compelling Q&A. How did this film initially come about? How has fast food changed the food we buy at the supermarket? How many years did it take to do this film and what were the challenges? Pearlstein: When Robby brought me into the project, he was adamant about wanting to hear all sides of the story, but it was nearly impossible to gain access onto industrial farms and into large food corporations. They just would not let us in. It felt like it would have been easier to penetrate the Pentagon than to get into a company that makes breakfast cereal. The legal challenges on this film were also unique. We found it necessary to consult with a first amendment lawyer throughout the entire filming process. Who or what influenced your film? And then, as we went out into the world, we became really incredibly influenced by a lot of the farmers we met. What was the most surprising thing you learned? Or we see Carol possibly losing her chicken farm … or we see Moe, a seed cleaner who’s just being sued for amounts that there’s no way he can pay, even though he’s not guilty of anything. Then we realized there’s something going on out there that supersedes foods. Our rights are being denied in ways that I had never imagined. And it was scary and shocking. And that was my biggest surprise. So, what does our current industrialized food system say about our values as a nation? Kenner: I met a cattle rancher and he said, you know, we used to be scared of the Soviet Union or we used to think we were so much better than the Soviet Union because we had many places to buy things. And we had many choices. We thought if we were ever taken over, we’d be dominated where we’d have to buy one thing from one company, and how that’s not the American way. And he said you look around now, and there’s like one or two companies dominating everything in the food world. We’ve become what we were always terrified of. And that just always haunted me – how could this happen in America? It seems very un-American that we would be so dominated, and then so intimidated by the companies that are dominating this marketplace. How has the revolving door relationship between giant food companies and Washington affected the food industry? What have been the consequences for the American consumer? Pearlstein: The food industry has succeeded in keeping some very important information about their products hidden from consumers. It’s outrageous that genetically modified foods don’t need to be labeled. Today more than 70% of processed foods in the supermarket are genetically modified and we have absolutely no way of knowing. Whatever your position, you should have the right to make informed choices, and we don’t. Now the FDA is contemplating whether or not to label meat and milk from cloned cows. It seems very basic that consumers should have the right to know if they’re eating a cloned steak. Is it possible to feed a nation of millions without this kind of industrialized processing? There is a section of the film that reveals how illegal immigrants are the faceless workers that help to bring food to our tables. Can you give us a profile of the average worker? Why are there so many Spanish-speaking workers? And they have been here for a number of years. But what’s happened is that we’ve decided that it’s no longer in the best interests of this country to have them here. But yet, these companies still need these people and they’re desperate, so they work out deals where they can have a few people arrested at a certain time so it doesn’t affect production. But it affects people’s lives. And these people are being deported, put in jail and sent away, but yet, the companies can go on and it really doesn’t affect their assembly line. And what happens is that they are replaced by other, desperate immigrant groups. Could the American food industry exist without illegal immigrants? What are scientists doing to our food and is it about helping food companies’ bottom line or about feeding a growing population? I am not opposed to food science. What matters is how that science is used … and for whose benefit. Can a person eat a healthy diet from things they buy in the supermarket if they are not buying organic? If so, how? How are low-income families impacted at the supermarket? And, in the same way that tobacco companies went after low-income people because they were heavy users, food companies are going after low-income people because they can market to them, they can make it look very appealing. What can low-income families do to eat healthier? Pollan: It’s possible to eat healthy food on a budget but it takes a greater investment of time. If you are willing to cook and plan ahead, you can eat local, sustainable food on a budget. If someone wanted to get involved and help change the system, what would you suggest they do? People can try to find a CSA – community supported agriculture – where you buy a share in a farm and get local food all year. That really helps support farmers and you get fresh, seasonal food. On the local political level, people can work on food access issues, like getting more markets into low income communities, getting better lunch programs in schools, trying to get sodas out of schools. And on a national level, we’ve learned that reforming the Farm Bill would have a huge influence on our food system. It requires some education, but it is something we should care about. What do you hope people take away from this film? Kenner: That things can change in this country. It changed against the big tobacco companies. We have to influence the government and readjust these scales back into the interests of the consumer. We did it before, and we can do it again. Pollan: A deeper knowledge of where their food comes from and a sense of outrage over how their food is being produced and a sense of hope and possibility of the alternatives springing up around the country. Food, Inc. is the most important and powerful film about our food system in a generation.
Armchair Daily: News From the World of Movies & TV
3:37 PM PST, November 2, 2009
GOOD NEWS FOR TV: After being abruptly canceled by NBC before it began airing its second season, Southland has been picked up by TNT and will start airing episodes on January. (EW.com) TV CASTING NEWS: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money) will replace Eric Bogosian in Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Nick Zano (Cougar Town) will move into Melrose Place beginning in January; Gregory Itzin, best known as evil President Charles Logan on 24, will return to the series for a multip-episode arc. Scott Foley (The Unit, Felicity) will join Cougar Town for three episodes. (EW.com) MOVIE CASTING NEWS: Katie Holmes will replace Liv Tyler in the indie film The Romantics. The film centers around eight college friends who reunite for the wedding of one of their pals (Anna Paquin). Josh Duhamel, Malin Ackerman, Elijah Wood and Adam Brody also star. --Ellen
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